Non-refundable ticket change fee: $125 Fee for changes made less than 60 days prior to ticketed flight departure. $0 for changes made 60 days in advance. Same day change fee: $25. Reservation by phone fee: $15.
Now ask yourself: are the apartments you're getting through a broker worth $2800 a month? Because when you average out the cost of that fee over an entire year, you're essentially adding $300 a month to your housing costs. One way to do this is to work directly with property management companies.
The bid and ask spread is the difference between the the price being quoted for buyers of a security and the price being quoted sellers. A trade of 1000 shares of a stock with a bid of 19.90 and an ask of 20 will incur a typical commission fee of $14.95 at your discount broker and cost 20,014.95 to execute.