Has either party given a 30 day notice to terminate the lease? 

This is only a 4-plex but the CE officer told me that the big complexes will send someone through a few days before to change the smoke detector batteries and make sure they work but by the time the inspector comes, 25% have been removed by the tenants. 

@Doug Pretorius City Hall has a department called Assessment Rolls, and you can sit in front of a computer terminal there for hours, taking down property owners' names to your heart's content.

When I got a approved an family emergency presented and I notified my Realtor that I was not able to move in, the contract stated that if I terminated the contract early I was responsible for a penalty up to 2 month of the lease amount, I negotiated down with the landlord to have the last month of penalty reduced and she agreed.

Question is, do I start the expensive eviction process that would end after the lease terminates or just ride this out.

If he is going to terminate the lease it has to be before November 1 2018 and after February 1 2018 which was his idea and we agreed on that (in Wisconsin no one wants to move in a blizzard and it’s hard to find new tenants in winter) I have legal documents for a lease, and a blank addendum page to write these details. 

We feel confident that once we apply our own screening criteria, we could find decent section 8 tenants, however, I am questioning, as a safe guard, if it's legal to give a tenant a notice of terminating a lease if the tenant has caused enough damage or incurred enough fees to deplete their security deposit.For a prior experience example, our last Section 8 tenant (the "final straw" tenant) had a $650 security deposit and at one point, had the front door kicked in, breaking  the door, both locks, and breaking the surrounding plaster (not due to a home invasion).

terminate lease?

That's why I go to google to search for stuff in Biggerpockets.I don't recall now, have search with search term in this forum on other things, knew I seen it here, but nothing showed up.

I am happy with what I will net with this buyer but is it still the smart move to terminate and move on or should I just wait?