In 2002, escaping a cold Chicago winter, Dean first visited Key West. After attending McGill University, he toiled away as a thermal dynamics engineer by day so he could invest in real estate by night-buying and selling thirty homes by the age of forty. Your Host: Dean Townsend, The Naked Realtorĭean Townsend was born in Montréal, grew up on Chicago’s North Shore and spent his childhood summers in the English countryside.