House with equity but too large to rent easily - get rid of it?

[Paul Doherty]

If you have 100k equity in a house but it's not going to be easy to rent (same number of bedrooms (3) as a smaller house but bigger sf by 1000) do you sell it and acquire a smaller house that's more "rentable" or simply lower the rent price and eat the greater maintnance costs (carpet, two AC units, etc)?