Andrew Lewis

Do you want confederates on the moon? Because this is how you get confederates on the moon!

You need to compare the rent on the home/apt you will be in next year with the cost of buying, not your current (insufficient) place.

Instead of giving them a laptop, setup a VM in Azure or AWS with whatever restrictions you want. Then just let them log in there to the work. You can easily shut it down or turn it off and prevent any further access. On a related note, I don't know any high-calibre developers that would work for you with any of the mentioned restrictions unless you're paying an ungodly amount of money in salary to them.