In concluding otherwise, the Appellate Division majority relied on Kent v Bedford Apts. Co., which held that the RSL's prohibition of a waiver of rights did not apply to a plaintiff not yet established as a rent-stabilized tenant (237 AD2d at 140). Kent, however, is inconsistent with our subsequent case law. In Riverside Syndicate, we examined an agreement whereby tenants "waive[d] all right to challenge the legality of the rent" and agreed to pay more than the allowable amount, in exchange for impermissibly retaining a rent-stabilized apartment under circumstances barred by the RSL (10 NY3d at 21). We held the agreement was "on its face" a pact to " 'waive the benefit' of rent stabilization," and "therefore void" (id. at 22). Notably, the tenants in Riverside were not tenants of record, and their settlement, which was so-ordered by the court, resolved a holdover proceeding (id. at 23). We confirmed this point in Jazilek, overturning an Appellate Division decision that relied on Kent and holding that "[a]lthough tenant was not 'of-record' upon entering . . . the so-ordered stipulation violat[ing] the Rent Stabilization Code," nonetheless the agreement was "void as against public policy" (10 NY3d at 944; see also 390 W. End Assoc., 298 AD2d at 14 [enforcing settlements that contravene the RSL "would essentially allow any landlord to evade rent regulations by the mere expedient of a private agreement"]).