Rental prices should not cost twice as much as a house payment

Montgomery, Alabama homeowners: Please stop acting like your 2 bedroom garden homes are 10 bedroom mansions. 1925/month? Not bloody likely. I want to live in a nice neighborhood, convenient to a grocery store, but off a main artery, and all that is open are people asking these ginormus amount. It is a rental house! I know that we are lucky in having officers from the Air Force rent from here, but local folks who can't quite settle a house payment in addition to their student loans need some nice places too! And, Millbrook and Prattville- have y'all gone nuts? Your houses are in the country- granted, they are growing, but give me a break. If I see one more 4 br 2.5 bath in Millbrook/Deatsville area for 1595 a month I am going to scream. This is price gouging for homes- and forget that to live out there you still need 5-6oo bucks a month for gas to get to the city. Please- wise up and start pricing a little lower so that good people (namely me) can get a cute little 2 br. for under a grand!!!