Reply To: what does a din torah cost?

I once called a din toran in lovely Brooklyn. They wanted $150 for the hazmana, and 250 for the appointment. They were shamelessly to’im bidvar mishna, and it cost me about a year or two of ahavas yisroel. In Jerusalem, I tried to start a mekach to’us case with a “name brand” beis din, they contacted my baal din, the gabbai got back to me and said “try to work it out outside”. My impression, among other negative feelings, is that they did not want to deal with “small potatoes”.