Does anyone know of contractors and tradesman who work in that area or would travel from Denver? 

You can find local investors by going to meetup.com , type in real estate and how far you are willing to travel.

By that time, its already traveled through your foundation wall.

Go to meetup.com type real estate and how many miles you want to travel and attend a meeting.

Meetup.com  type real estate and how many miles you want to travel and you will be able to assemble a team.

With that being said, we encourage our Agents to do so if they are working with serious buyers as they will have personal time invested, they will provide assessments and share knowledge with the buyer, they will have travel and wear and tear on their vehicle, etc. 

The rest of the house was intact, but had immense smoke damage.

Just a few weeks ago they declinrd to pay a smoking damage claim because (though we had all documentation in place) our cleaning companies invoice did not include a phone number.

He travels throughout NJ for jobs.

@Rob Bergeron i've been looking at houses in smoke town that would be total gut jobs down to the studs.