  The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Gamma-Ray Observatory has been accumulating
a progressively deeper exposure of the TeV sky since its inauguration in March
2015. Located at geographical latitude $+19^\circ$N, HAWC has been able to
perform a deep and unbiased survey of two thirds of the sky. We analyzed three
years of HAWC data searching for long term persistent emission from a redshift
limited ($z\leq 0.3$) sample of active galactic nuclei drawn from the {\it
Fermi}-LAT 3FHL catalog. The HAWC dataset confirms the high significance
detection of the two nearest BL Lac objects, \mbox{Mrk 421} and \mbox{Mrk 501},
and sets limits for the rest of the sample, down to integrated photon fluxes of
order $N(>0.5~{\rm TeV})\lesssim 10^{-12}\,\rm cm^{-2}s^{-1}$. We present and
discuss some of the results of this survey, focusing on individual objects of
particular interest.
