One of our best stands on our property is within a couple hundred yards of a house that was built several years ago. I had the same reaction back then, stopped using the stand the first year as I thought there was no way that stand would be any good. Well I was wrong, the deer seemed to use our area even more now as the commotion of the house and activity actually helped push them our way more. The year I shot my biggest buck from that stand I sat and watched a much bigger buck chase a doe up and around that house, got within 20 yards of it!!