Gail, I don't see anything wrong with making sure the documents are done right. My biggest pet peeve is buyer agents who do not bother to check MLS to see how the listing agent works. I can be either a Transaction broker or Sellers Agent and it is clearly posted on the MLS. This is what I find they leave off the most.

To say you refuse to do the work for the selling agent does not make sense to me, do whatever you have to do to get the deal done, it works well for both sides. But I also understand it when you feel like you have to do both sides of the deal because the other agent just isn't motivated enough to do it right.

I love it when I get a poorly completed contract! If an agent doesn't have the fundamental skills required to fill out a purchase contract then I know they are likely to get slaughtered at the negotiations table!

I typically counter the needed corrections. That way the agent has to go back to their clients and basically present them with a document that says, "I'm clueless, and the agent for the seller knows what he's doing".  Plus, the broker should see the counter and realize he needs to go back to Real Estate 101 with his/her agent.

I like Jay's approach, but usually do the work myself.

PROFESSIONAL. And it's in your client's best interest to get everything clarified in a way that eliminates ambiguities.

There's one office here in town with agents who fill in half the blanks in our Res PC with 'TBD'.  

Like I need to call my psychic friends to figure out what they're asking the seller to agree to . . . LOL

Asked the broker to please help her agents find meaningful ways to fill in the blanks and got a nastygram telling me if I were really a nice person I would HELP the agents myself.

Professional, period, exclamation point.

And did I mention professional?   :)

Klaus wrote: "I like Jay's approach, but usually do the work myself."

Klaus - I'm confused (a semi-normal state). If you get a sloppy contract, you do the work yourself? Meaning you make changes youself to the actual contract?

I've started to keep a file of when I ask the agents for these things in my file. That way if I am audited, I have a paper trail.

Jay, meaning I usually inform the other agent of what is missing.