I research and write my own as well as far as articles go. I have a few syndicated streams, but these are more for brief news updates, rather than the core of my content.
I write my own articles I have knowledge of or I have interest in. For more technical articles, I normally outsource
I outsource my article writing. Elance, Rent-a-coder, or writers posting in the services forum here on DP. I find PLR articles to be more work than they are worth- essentially you need to rewrite them to make them unique and catered to your own website. When I have time I write my own as well.
so i am thinking that my gainfinance.com site and my firstmortgagehelp.com site are taking so long to get properly indexed might be because of this reason. 100% outsourced I made all of the designs extremely simple and css driven with php and mysql backend