Meet other investors in your area and stay in touch with them; you can ask them questions that might prevent problems.Best to you!

This is something their screening probably would have caught, or their system would have a legal procedure to deal with it.

.: Is it legal, per the IRS, to rent my primary home back to myself? 

A novice real estate investor. Although I don't have much experience in this field yet, I am passionate about real estate and hope to continuously learn and grow in this industry.

Is there any legal action one can take or is it just a lost cause?

When I asked for a meeting with Dutch to discuss my investment strategy, he did meet with me and was pleasant.

Hi @Heather Bailey something to consider with this is legal mother/daughter may not mean legal duplex. 

But if they don’t even bother to fill out the forms to apply, or get a basic job to make ends meet, or borrow money from family or friends/ somebody else besides you, then they can’t stay.

Seek legal advice, however, what I understand is that there are really two way to wholesale that is legal in the state of Arkansas.

The AP has to be open, notorious and hostile...those terms have a legal meaning and essentially it is that you as the owner have been fully deprived of your right to the property.Absent those items above, it sounds like at best they have another legal right which is a "prescriptive easement".