My wife and I had been staying at the Ocean View Motel starting in about 2000. We usually stayed there for weekends 2 or three times a year, and always had a great stay. A young couple were managing it up until about two years ago, and the place was very clean and well run. During that time upgrades, new windows, paint, refrigerators, were made and it was even better. We recommended this spot to many people as a great place to stay. Having met other lodgers there, their clientele is also supplemented by recommendations from USF for patients and families.
In the last two years or so that we stayed there, the management had been turned over to a group of younger men who do not seem to care about the guests or the property at all.
Numerous times we were given the keys to the rooms that we had reserved, and they had not been cleaned or made up (arrriving after 7 p.m.). Overall maintenance deteriorated to a medieval state, dirty sheets, towels, bathrooms, nasty ice machine and filthy carpets. We decided to go to another motel in the area which has the same prices and parking.
Recommendations for this property are no longer coming from anyone who used to stay here or I would assume, from USF. Prices, I am told, have dropped.
I would like to appeal to the folks who own or are running this property to rescue it.
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I stayed at this motel because I love the location and because it was inexpensive for SF ($82 incl. taxes, and free parking). I had stayed there a couple times several years ago when the furnishings were on par with Motel 6 and the carpets were worn out, and it has been redone since then, but overall the condition of all of the most important items was terrible and I wouldn't stay there again.

*The bed was large and flat (firm), but the sheets were too small for the bed and did not cover the mattress even when it had just been made! As soon as you sat down they popped off, and over the night you end up with your body in contact with the mattress (YUK!). The sheets also had holes and someone else's hair.

*The toilet was one of the first-edition Low Flow that will not flush even one piece of TP the first flush. For those certain times, it would take a good 10 flushings while watching everything swirl around and waiting for the water to fill up. Gross!

*The only lights in the main part of the room are on one of those motion detectors that turn off if you are not moving. So if you got up in the middle of the night and wanted to turn on the light, you had to stumble over to the wall switch and pound on the thing to get it to turn on, and then go back to the bedside lamp and turn it on (having turned it off before going to sleep). What is really classic, and indicative of the care put into this motel, is that the digital clock was plugged into this same outlet. So the clock is either OFF or BLINKING 12:00.

*The towels were GRAY and had holes in them. What was really shocking is that there was one washcloth that was white, and the contrast of the gray towels was disgusting.

*All of the caulking around the inside and the outside of the tub had rotted away, and was replaced with mold and mildew. It was also growing along the bottom of the shower curtain.

*The shower stopped being hot much before my shower was over, and it's not because anyone else was using it.

*Bathroom was really small - only wide enough for the toilet. Sink was outside in the other arm of the "L".

*We stayed two nights (having made plans in that part of the city), and there was only one other couple in the entire motel. They left a sign on the window "No Vacancy - Reservations Only", and kept the office all closed up. However, we found there is actually someone in there hiding around the corner where they can watch you walking through the parking garage but you can't see them. The whole thing was just weird, and I got the feeling the motel was a "front" for something else going on there.

If someone else took it over, I would stay there again because there are some good things about it:
*The rooms are big, and we had a room on the end of the building that was L-shaped and bigger than the others. It had a desk instead of round table and 2 chairs that the smaller rooms had. Some rooms have a couch.
*It is so nice to walk outside and get on the train, and I like watching it go by and go around the roundabout at the end of the road. It comes every 10 minutes, making it very easy to get around in the city. You can get off it and catch a bus or cab anywhere else. The downside is if you have a room facing Judah Street, you hear its squeaking breaks and little bell constantly all day because there is always one coming and one going.
*Java Beach Cafe is right next door, one of my favorites. Such a nice atmosphere and light food.
*There's a new cafe on the other corner with Soul Food, and it is also very good. Or, you can take the train down a few blocks and there is every other type of restaurant.
*Being right next to the beach and the beach trail. (I am pretty sure none of the rooms actually has an "oceanview" because the sand dunes block the view). We walked out in the rain to watch the surfers, and took a little stroll on the paved trail along the Great Highway with our coffee. So nice! However, the frontage road along the Great Highway is all people that live in their vehicles and other homeless. The motel seems tucked away from this and I don't think they would come into the parking garage, but they are there. The Great Highway Inn around the corner is much more exposed to this.
*The fridge, microwave and heat worked!

I've been staying at the Ocean View Motel for over 10 years. An exceptionally nice Indian couple ran the place for a long time but left after a major upgrade several years ago. New windows, door locks, refrigerators and microwaves were added I believe in 2007 or so. Unfortunately the couple left and and the new staff, who are also Indian, have let the place really become run down and dirty. In the past the sheets, towels and bathrooms were spotless. On my last visit the formerly white towels were a dingy gray color and there was mold growing in the bathroom. The room appeared to be very dusty and generally grungy.

I won't be staying at the Ocean View again. It's too bad, it has a great location with the N line train, Java Beach Cafe and Ocean Beach just across the street. Plus free parking. A real bargain for SF but the lack of cleanliness is a deal killer for me.

ok first of all the room was big. For San Francisco this was a big room. Also in room coffee and fridge and microwave and free parking and the Muni picks up right in front. That's where the good ends. It seems like the owners of this place are just plain lazy and don't want to invest any time and money to keep this place up. The parking had weeds, the halls and stair ways and the room need a good coat of paint. The paint is peeling, chipped and marked up. The sheets were so worn out you could see through them. The towels were also worn out. The silicone around the bath tub was moldy and the carpets were fraying at the seams.

When we arrived in the lobby there was a person sitting in the corner behind the glass and just sat there as we stood at the window. after about 30 to 45 seconds he stood up to help us.

To me all this just points out to pure laziness. These people don't deserve business and won't be getting mine again. I have stayed in other motels in S.F. for around the same price and less, that were better taken care of than this place.