Our Story · Since 2016
It started with a house nobody wanted to save
A country-rock musician and a police detective, two doors apart on the same street, with no plan to start a company at all.
01
2014
Two neighbors on the same street
Jamey Ice and Jimmy Williams are lifelong best friends. They were also, for years, just neighbors: a country-rock musician and a Fort Worth police detective living a few doors apart in the same historic neighborhood.
On paper it's an unlikely pair. A long-haired, tattooed musician and an undercover detective are not who you picture when you picture a real estate company. That turned out to be the entire point.
Neither of them related to the suit-and-tie, hustle-for-the-commission version of the industry they kept bumping into. Every experience with an agent was the same: someone who wasn't adding value, just moving the paperwork toward a payday.
They knew more about houses, construction, and investing than people who'd been in the business for years.
02
The happy accident
A house that was going to be torn down
It started with one house. An old place in their neighborhood, close enough to being demolished that buying it looked less like an investment than a rescue. They bought it anyway.
Then they did the thing nobody was doing yet: they shared the whole process online, as it happened. Not the after photos. The middle. The mess, the decisions, the parts that went sideways.
People took notice. The house sold fast. And the phone started ringing.
03
120+ houses
Then they did it for the neighbors
One house became another, and then another. They went on to buy and restore more than 120 historic houses in Fort Worth, and to help hundreds of their own neighbors do the same thing with theirs.
Somewhere in there it stopped being a side project and started being obvious: they'd hit a real need. People didn't want to be sold a house. They wanted someone who actually knew what the house needed, and would tell them the truth about it.
04
Fall 2016
Everything under one roof
In the fall of 2016, they launched 6th Ave Homes: a one-stop shop for buying, selling, construction, and design. Not a brokerage that knows a guy. One company where the agent, the designer, the drafting team, and the builder already work together.
It was a genuinely different model: a turnkey way to find or create a space that actually feels like you. Less formal, more relational. Real estate should be enjoyable, not stuffy and intimidating.
It worked. The company has since won the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce's Small Business of the Year, and has helped thousands of North Texans buy, sell, design, and build.
What we actually believe
Homes are sacred.
We take that seriously, honoring what's special in each of the neighborhoods we touch, and inviting people into the process. So that instead of moving out, they're moving in. What keeps us moving is watching the restoration of both the houses and the people in them. From the relationships to the houses, we try to leave everything better than we found it.
05
Today
What began with one house
Today the work runs from a kitchen refresh to a ground-up estate: buying, selling, renovating, designing, drafting, and building, all from the same team. The houses got bigger. The mission didn't change.
People don't just want to buy a house. They want to live in a home that reflects who they are. Whatever the size or the scope, we've got the people to make it happen, and to make it fun.
Creating homes. Building community. Real estate with soul.
Want the rest of it?
The film, the team, and the 10-year timeline all live on our About page. Or just come talk to us about your house.